Philip Proctor

Philip George Proctor (born July 28, 1940) is an American actor and a member of the Firesign Theatre. He has performed voice-over work for video games, films and television series.

Early life
Proctor was born in Goshen, Indiana, on July 28, 1940. His great-uncle was Mennonite writer Joseph Yoder. Four years later after his family moved to New York City, he was a child actor working in television. He later earned a drama degree at Yale University.

Career
Proctor won a Theatre World Award for his 1964 performance in The Amorous Flea.

Proctor also appeared occasionally on television in small roles, including episodes of Daniel Boone, All in the Family, and Night Court. He also provided the voices of Meltdown in Treasure Planet and "Drunk Monkey" in the Dr. Dolittle remake series. He has also provided uncredited ADR overdubs for numerous movies over the years. More recently, he has done voices for several cartoons and video games, including the voice of Howard Deville in Rugrats and All Grown Up! on Nickelodeon, "background" voices for Disney features, and voice work on Power Rangers Time Force. He also did two voices in the GameCube video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. He is the voice of The Professor and White Monkey in the Ape Escape series. Recently, his voice was featured in the video game Dead Rising as Russell Barnaby, in the Assassin's Creed series as Dr. Warren Vidic, and on Adventures in Odyssey as Leonard Meltsner and Detective Don Polehaus. In the 2007 live audio production of the Angie Award-winning screenplay Albatross (original screenplay written by Lance Rucker and Timothy Perrin) at the International Mystery Writers Festival, he played seven characters requiring four different accents: KGB agent Stefan Linnik, East German Communist Party apparatchik Kurt Mueller; a West Berlin gasthaus owner; an armed forces radio announcer; the Senate minority whip; a Secret Service guard; and Gerhard Derstman, the East German Cultural Attache/Stasi member. He also lent his voice to the game Battlezone. He was the announcer on Big Brother in seasons 3 through 6. Proctor also lent his voice in the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance series as the voices of Edwin Jarvis and Baron Mordo in the first game, and the Tinkerer in the sequel, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2. He currently serves among the repertory cast of featured voices in recent and current Disney animated films.

Stage versions of the records Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers; The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye; and Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him and Temporarily Humboldt County are published Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

In 2017, Proctor published an autobiography entitled Where's My Fortune Cookie? coauthored with Brad Schreiber.

In recent years Proctor has performed on the radio program American Parlor Songbook in sketches called "Boomers on a Bench".

Personal life
Proctor was married to actress Sheilah Wells and Norwegian television producer Barbro Semmingsen. He was married to Melinda Peterson from 1992 until her death in 2023. His daughter with Semmingsen, Kristin, is also an actress.

Feature films
Both animated and live action:


 * Murder à la Mod (1968) – Soap Opera (voice)
 * The Thousand Plane Raid (1969) – Turret Gunner
 * A Safe Place (1971) – Fred
 * Tunnel Vision (1976) – Christian A. Broder
 * Cracking Up (1977) – Walter Concrete
 * J-Men Forever (1979) – J-Man Barton
 * Sam's Son (1984) – Art Fisher
 * Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) – Mike (segment "Silly Pate")
 * Lobster Man from Mars (1989) – Lou
 * Night Life (1989) – Randolph Whitlock
 * Toy Story (1995) – Pizza Planet Guard / Pizza Planet Announcer (voice)
 * Hercules (1997) – Boat captain / Snowball the cat (voice)
 * Dr. Dolittle (1998) – Drunk monkey (voice)
 * The Rugrats Movie (1998) – Howard DeVille / Igor (voice)
 * A Bug's Life (1998) – Ant #1 / Fly / Grasshopper (voice)
 * Tarzan (1999) – English captain / Scared elephant (voice)
 * Toy Story 2 (1999) – Sign-off voice / Airline rep / Mr. Konishi (voice)
 * The Independent (2000) – Rob's Dad
 * The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) – RBTV floor director
 * Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000) – Howard DeVille (voice)
 * Recess: School's Out (2000) – Golfer #2 / Scientist #2 (voice)
 * Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) – Drunk monkey (voice)
 * Spirited Away (2001) – Frog-like chef (English version, voice)
 * Monsters, Inc. (2001) – Charlie Proctor (voice)
 * Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002) – Getafix (English version, voice)
 * Treasure Planet (2002) – Blinko (voice)
 * Rugrats Go Wild (2003) – Howard DeVille (voice)
 * Brother Bear (2003) – Inuit tribe members (voice)
 * Home on the Range (2004) – Man on train (voice)
 * The Incredibles (2004) – Guard #1 (voice)
 * Thru the Moebius Strip (2005) – Rebel (English version, voice)
 * Hollywood Dreams (2006) – Theater director
 * Happily N'Ever After (2006) – Amigo 1 (voice)
 * Fly Me to the Moon (2007) – Senior official (voice)
 * Outback (2012) – Lug (voice)
 * The Reef 2: High Tide (2012) – Moe (voice)

Animation

 * Pound Puppies (1987) – Rusty the Plott Hound
 * Taz-Mania (1991–1993) – Chief Bushrat / Willie Wombat
 * Rugrats (1991–2004) – Howard DeVille / Announcer / Bob / Circus Ringmaster / Clown, Dance Announcer / Policeman / Man / Band Leader / Oarsman / Commander / Germ / French Voice / Car Alarm / Workman / Paul / Paul Gatsby / Mover / Bernie / Allen Murphy / Driver #1 / Tour Guide / DJ / Brinks Guard / Richter / Mr. Loew / Earl / Golfer #2 / Intern / Dr. Lecter / Thorg / Mr. Steele
 * The Town Santa Forgot (1993) – Mr. Creek
 * The Tick (1994–1996) – Courderoy Cordova / Fortissimo Brothers / Charles' Father
 * Spider-Man The Animated Series (1997) – Electro / Rhienholdt Kragov
 * The Wild Thornberrys (2000) – Game Host / Body Builder
 * Justice League (2002) – First Humanoid
 * All Grown Up! (2003–2008) – Howard DeVille / Mr. Jacobi / Priest / Italian Shopper / Football Coach / Plastic Soccer Player
 * Grim & Evil (2004) – Dr. Cornea / Ogre
 * Ben & Izzy (2006) – Mark Twain
 * Famous 5: On the Case (2008) – Ralph Campbell

Live action

 * Big Brother (1999) – Announcer (seasons 3–5)
 * Power Rangers Time Force (2001) – Miracon (voice)
 * Arrested Development (2015) – Rev. Bob Patterson

Video games

 * Bomb Squad (1982) - Frank
 * B-17 Bomber (1982) - Pilot
 * Lighthouse: The Dark Being (1996) – Dr. Jeremiah Krick
 * Battlezone (1998) – General George Collins / Russian tank pilot
 * Star Trek: Klingon Academy (2000) – Civil War Helm Officer / Tako / Commander Roq
 * Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (2001) – Viceroy Nute Gunray
 * La Pucelle: Tactics (2002) – Father Salade (English version)
 * Blood Omen II: Legacy of Kain (2002) – Faustus
 * Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (2002) – Roberto Bianchi / Bishop
 * Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain (2004) – Proust / ALA B / Pulikovsky / CDP Soldier B / Samaev
 * Final Fantasy X-2 (2003) – Donga
 * Final Fantasy XIII – Cocoon Inhabitants
 * Area 51 (2005) – Mr. White
 * 007: From Russia with Love (2005) – Q
 * Ape Escape: On the Loose (2005) – Professor (US version)
 * Ape Escape 3 (2005) – Monkey White / Professor (US version)
 * Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror (2006) – Viktor Yavlinsky
 * Dead Rising (2006) – Russell Barnaby (English version)
 * Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2006) – Edwin Jarvis / Baron Mordo
 * SOCOM II U.S. Navy SEALs (2006) – Arjan Manjani
 * Final Fantasy XII (2006) – Additional voices
 * Blue Dragon (2006) – Fushira (English version)
 * Assassin's Creed (2007) – Warren Vidic
 * Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 (2009) – Tinkerer / Magneto
 * The Saboteur (2009) – Kessler
 * The Lord of the Rings: War in the North (2011) – Radagast the Brown
 * Darksiders II (2012) – The Lord of Bones
 * Batman: Arkham Knight (2015) – Simon Stagg